America, this is serious. The brightest minds in this country are running away from careers in health care. Many of our best doctors are being forced out of business. We must start an open dialogue with doctors ― the individuals who are the most influential in advancing our health care system. The success of our health care system absolutely depends on the caliber of talent we attract to become and remain our nation’s physicians. Short-changing the individuals who are sacrificing everything to save lives will lead to the biggest threat to our nation’s health care system.

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The AMA is seeking to test older physicians. This is no doubt due to the influence and lobbying of the “impaired physicians movement”and the “addiction medicine” specialists who brought us the “impaired” and “disruptive” physician constructs. As do all groups of this ilk, they want to expand. It is predictable and that is what we are seeing here.

As a specialist in geriatric medicine I have experience in taking care of a number of doctors who were referred to me for suspected memory problems. Still operating and teaching residents in his 70s, myfirstwas a well-respected surgeon, a pioneer or Maverick who had made advances in his particular subspecialty. Known for hisdetailed knowledge of the history of medicine and sharp clinical acumen, he had not seemed himself for a while. His colleagues notedhe appeared slower,fatigued and forgetful at times (not…